Sephora Lead Performance Engineer

Remote • USA

Friday, December 5, 2025

Sephora, a distinguished member of the LVMH family, is a global leader in the beauty retail sector. Renowned for its innovative approach and commitment to excellence, Sephora empowers its teams to redefine the future of beauty. As an employer, Sephora fosters an inclusive environment where diversity is celebrated, and creativity is encouraged, ensuring that each team member can thrive and contribute to the company's success.

1. Lead the performance engineering practice for Sephora’s digital systems, ensuring high-performance, high-availability, and scalable architecture.
2. Design and execute performance testing strategies including load, stress, spike, and soak testing, as well as capacity planning and bottleneck analysis.
3. Integrate Chaos Engineering practices to validate system resilience under failure conditions using tools like Gremlin and Chaos Mesh.
4. Build and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting frameworks for performance-related metrics using platforms such as Splunk, AppDynamics, and Dynatrace.
5. Collaborate on continuous-delivery pipelines to embed performance checks, automated regression testing, and performance gating.
6. Drive root-cause analysis after performance incidents, propose remediations, and ensure preventive engineering.

1. 8+ years of significant hands-on responsibility for performance, scalability, and architecture of large, high-traffic systems.
2. 8+ years of expertise in ensuring stability, reliability, and performance of mission-critical software applications in production environments.
3. 8+ years of experience with monitoring, observability, and performance management tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, Datadog, and AppDynamics.
4. 8+ years of proven track record in performance engineering, log analysis, anomaly detection, and troubleshooting of distributed systems.
5. 2+ years of prior experience in a retail, e-commerce, or analogous high-scale environment preferred.

1. Expertise in performance testing and monitoring tools such as JMeter, BlazeMeter, LoadRunner, and Gatling.
2. Strong programming and scripting skills in languages like Java, Python, and Groovy.
3. Experience with microservices, APIs, Docker/Kubernetes, and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).
4. Analytical and problem-solving skills to identify bottlenecks and optimize systems.
5. Leadership and collaboration skills to lead teams, mentor engineers, and work closely with DevOps and SRE teams.

8+ years of experience in performance engineering, particularly in high-traffic systems and mission-critical software applications.

The annual base salary range for this position is $173,610.00 - $192,900.00, with eligibility for bonuses.

Sephora offers a comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, and vision plans, a 401(k) plan, paid time off, employee discounts, life and disability insurance, flexible spending accounts, and an employee referral bonus program.

Sephora is committed to fostering a culture of innovation and inclusivity, where team members are empowered to be their best selves. As part of the LVMH family, Sephora's global reach and impact are significant, with a focus on reimagining the future of beauty. The company values diversity and is an equal opportunity employer, dedicated to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.